Tucia – online photo retouching service gives you some star treatment on the cheap

If you’ve ever wanted to get the same kind of photo retouching love that the stars get when they’re pictured on magazine covers, now’s your chance. Tucia is a new online service which offers professional re-touching of any photo by a team of international Photoshop experts.

All ya gotta do is upload your photo/s, add them to your project, fill in the instruction form and hand over the money via CC, Paypal or whatever. It will cost from $8.00 to $48.00 per image depending on complexity, and the more expensive ones will involve the very top retouching guys. 1700 designers, 24 hour turnaround for small jobs, and satisfaction guaranteed, what more could you ask for? Madonna? Pah, who she?

Many problems, though, demand more sophisticated opearations, more creativity, more industry experience and a deeper understanding of how to represent an image. Our professional artists understand your instruction better than anyone else. They rely on clever hands and sophisticated software to bring you something that stands out.

Most of these do not come out like advertised at all…..I mean it’s kind of hit or miss, but overall it is really quite awful. The feedback you write on your photos is simply ignored, and the only way to get them to edit the photo the way you want it is to write an angry email to Tucia support, and even then you still don’t get what you want. Between revisions, I compare the photos side by side most of the time and they look exactly the same. This means that although they advertise unlimited revisions, it’s really kind of pointless if the photos are left untouched. I question if photoshop is even used in the edits of the photos. Some of the edits look like they were done in paint….that bad. I would not recommend spending the money to get your photos edited….it’s simply not worth the money, the hassle, the multiple and frustrating revisions that get you nowhere, and the angry emails that it takes to get something to start to look like what you want. Save yourself the money and the hassle.